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I had a sort of bad experiences as a playwright early on, when directors were putting in huge concepts that I didn't intend, or they were stylizing something that was compromising the play, so I started to think like, 'Well if I'm going to fight against this, I should learn how to direct.'

~Adam Rapp

Topics: Against Bad Compromising Concepts Direct Directors Early Experiences Fight Going Had How Huge Intend Learn Like Play Playwright Putting Should Something Sort Started Think Well Were

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When I'm directing, I'm pretty much not writing, but when I'm not directing I am writing a lot. It's strange: people have asked me what my schedule is and what is my process like, and I can't even answer it. I don't keep regular hours.

~Adam Rapp

Topics: Am Answer Asked Directing Even Hours Keep Like Lot Me Much People Pretty Process Regular Schedule Strange Writing I Am

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I suffer from and enjoy an incredibly vivid dream life. A lot of times there is a sort of narrative, and other times they are just funhouses of non-linear imagery and other scary stuff.

~Adam Rapp

Topics: Dream Enjoy Imagery Incredibly Just Life Lot Narrative Other Scary Sort Stuff Suffer Times Vivid

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One of the tricks to writing great plays is to get people in a room together and not let them leave. You want the tension to escalate. Keeping them there is the hardest part, so you have to take away any excuse for them to leave.

~Adam Rapp

Topics: Any Away Excuse Get Great Hardest Hardest Part Keeping Leave Part People Plays Room Take Tension Them Together Tricks Want Writing You

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Some of the greatest works of theater, from Chekov's work to modern playwrights', consist of just a few people in a room with no one leaving.

~Adam Rapp

Topics: Consist Few Few People Greatest Just Leaving Modern People Playwrights Room Some Theater Work Works

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I think there is a complicated side effect to overcoming evil in that we are forever changed by it. I think after we ingest some of the cruelty of the world, it takes years off of our lives, but it also gives us wisdom and a little grace, hopefully a sense of compassion.

~Adam Rapp

Topics: After Also Changed Compassion Complicated Cruelty Effect Evil Forever Gives Grace Hopefully Little Lives Off Our Our Lives Overcoming Sense Side Some Takes Think Us Wisdom World Years I Think

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I hate the idea of sheltering kids from challenging books. It's just another form of conservative fear that promotes ignorance more than anything else.

~Adam Rapp

Topics: Another Anything Anything Else Books Challenging Conservative Else Fear Form Hate Idea Ignorance Just Kids More More Than Anything Than

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I saw 'Six Degrees of Separation' because my brother was in it. It was a watershed experience. It was theatrical and scary, and New York functioned like a character. John Guare became a hero for me.

~Adam Rapp

Topics: Became Because Brother Character Degrees Experience Hero John Like Me New New York Saw Scary Separation Six Theatrical York

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The biggest audience for Off Broadway is mostly coming in on a train - either Upper East Siders or Metro-North. I go to the theater, and everyone around me is over 50. How interested will they be in my kind of work?

~Adam Rapp

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I would hope that the staffs at juvenile detention centers and reform schools are carefully chosen so that there is a community of support and hope.

~Adam Rapp

Topics: Carefully Centers Chosen Community Detention Hope Juvenile Reform Schools Support Would

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Novelist

Born: June 15th, 1968

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